Will Flip Be A Gopher Next Year?

Hooped Up | February 26, 2007

Reports continue out of Minneapolis that Flip Saunders is going to be the next coach at the University of Minnesota next season, even though he has two years and $9 million left on his Pistons contract. Sid Hartman, long-time columnist at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, citing former Gophers coach Dan Monson as his source, reported that a deal already is in place to make Saunders the next coach. “That’s ridiculous,” Saunders said before the game Sunday. “That’s not true.”